2011-06-24

Panorama HR - Sony HX9V, HX7V, HX100V,TX100V, WX10 ...

The Hx9V can capture a lot of detail in dark areas but it is easy to destroy the detail in the bright areas by blowing them out. Focus and exposure is set for the whole panorama when you press the shutter halfway for the first time before pressing it full.
I had a look at some panoramas and noticed often the blown out highlights.

Let me give you a tip how to avoid that and still capture everything.
1. make a test sweep of the panorama you want to shoot and locate the brightest area.
2. frame the brightest spot, press and hold the shutter half way.
3. move the camera to the start position while still holding the shutter half pressed.
4. shoot the panorama
5. on the computer you might notice that some areas are to dark
6. use faststone image viewer to get the detail out of the shadows - see here and stay below 50.

Finally the quality I wanted in a sweep panorama!

NEW quesabesde.com just published a pre-production HD sample where you can see the limits of auto stitching from the panorama function.

A friendly fellow send me this full size 43MP panorama HR to share with you.

where proud DSLR owner need a fancy fisheye lens, the new Sony X series makes this with a sweep.

When Sony introduced the sweep panorama, the results from my HX1 and HX5 were a bit disappointing. The stitching was good and the new motion detection worked well in most situations but the quality was the one from a stitched video feed - too low res for most uses.

4 comments:

Hi, I really love the HR sweep panorama concept. But, compared to 360' Panorama Stitch by Lumix TZ20/ZS10, what is the maximum angle of HX9V Sweep Panorama? And does it has exposure bracketing (that gives you 3 different exposure pics)?

I'd prefer HX9V clean detail over ISO400 (compared to the blurry Lumix in high ISO), but Lumix's 360' Stitch and the exposure bracketing feature really make me hard to make a decision.

Citra you can make a manual 360 degree panorama stitch with every camera and software the way Panasonic does it. You find the angles in the HX9V on the net technical data section.No auto panorama takes 3 exposure shots for HDR, you have to take them manually and combine them to a HDR panorama with Autopano.

2011 the year Nippon awoke Godzilla

Last Millennium Nippon (Japan) was for me the land of robots, monsters like Godzilla and made in Japan what replaced the quality seal made in Germany.

Who would have ever imagined the there came a day when Nippon would awake Godzilla for real.

If you might recall, one of Godzilla´s attributes was his Atomic Breath what now covers parts of this planet.

When in 2010 the Gulf Oil disaster happened I tried to figure out if it could impact Europe directly. So I started a blog to collect my findings. You still can find that blog in my HX5 blog link list if you care.

With Fukushima not well covered in the mainstream and a measurable fallout already on my islands I like to share with you important facts what will in the long run impact your life.

Be aware that there are people around who think the story of Radioactive Man is real and that radiation can be good for you, there is also the counter part who thinks we are all doomed and embellish the other way. As usual the truth is somewhere in the middle.

Also I have to tell you how proud I am to be in the European Union who takes so good care of their members like instantly rising, when Japan asked, the allowed radioactive dosis for food substantially and the German speaking states censor now The Simpsons when they try to raise awareness make fun how negligent people are around nuclear power.

People over Japan and also the USA measuring and reporting actual radiation data via safecast.org.

Over 35 years old still up to date:
KRAFTWERK - RADIO-ACTIVITYchange Hiroshima to Fukushima

On a personal note, you know the most bleeped out word on American television is fuck as South Park so nicely demonstrated with the Human CentiPad episode. It is used if something is not right. In Germany scheisse (shit) has the same function. For me FUK (from FUKushima) is starting to replace the old swear words for something that is terrible wrong but I can not do anything about it.

2012-03-11
Fukushima is constantly poisoning Japan and the rest of the whole planet now for over one year in the name of profit and total moronic ignorance and incompetence.